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• Canary Girls

  Chiaverini, Jennifer,

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  Early in the Great War, men left Britain's factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production, arsenals hired women to build the weapons the military urgently needed. "Be the Girl Behind the Man Behind the Gun," the recruitment posters…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The First Bright Thing

  Dawson, J. R. (Omaha teaching artist),

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  Ringmaster -- Rin, to those who know her best -- can jump to different moments in time as easily as her wife, Odette, soars from bar to bar on the trapeze. And the circus they lead is a rare home and safe haven for magical misfits and outcasts,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Flight Portfolio

  Orringer, Julie,

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  The long-awaited new work from the best-selling author of The Invisible Bridge takes us back to occupied Europe in this gripping historical novel based on the true story of Varian Fry's extraordinary attempt to save the work, and the lives, of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Girl With the Louding Voice

  Daré, Abi,

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  A powerful, emotional debut novel told in the unforgettable voice of a young Nigerian woman who is trapped in a life of servitude but determined to get an education so that she can escape and choose her own future.

• Girls Burn Brighter

  Rao, Shobha,

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  A searing, electrifying debut novel set in India and America, for readers of Rupi Kaur, about the extraordinary bond between two girls driven apart by circumstances but relentless in their search for one another.

• Heroic Hearts

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  In this short story collection of courage, adventure, and magic, heroes--ordinary people who do the right thing--bravely step forward. But running toward danger might cost them everything.

• Honor

  Umrigar, Thrity N.,

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  The story of two Indian women, one a victim of a brutal crime and the other an Americanized journalist returning to India to cover the story, and the courage they inspire in each other.

• How Much of These Hills Is Gold

  Zhang, C Pam,

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  Newly orphaned children of immigrants, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• If Beale Street Could Talk

  Baldwin, James, 1924-1987

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  This novel is a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, the story mixes the sweet and the sad.

• Last Night at the Telegraph Club

  Lo, Malinda,

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  Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club.

• My Absolute Darling

  Tallent, Gabriel,

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  Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Nickel Boys

  Whitehead, Colson, 1969-

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  In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school…Read moreRead more of this annotation